Branch activities
- Prepare for Emergencies
- Providing the source of life for the people of Walioya
- Matale Red Cross branch gets a new home
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Archive for the year 2012
Prepare for Emergencies
Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Kandy branch organized a First Aid Training Programme for School children in the area from 30th March – 06th of April 2012 under the Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction Programme.
Providing the source of life for the people of Walioya
Residents of Monarawewa and Gajabapura villages in Welioya will now have access to clean water as the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society’s (SLRCS) Anuradhapura Branch launched a massive well cleaning programme in these respective villages.
Matale Red Cross branch gets a new home
The Matale branch moved to a new building today under the auspicies of the President of Sri Lanka Red Cross Society Jagath Abeysinghe.
Red Cross delivers aid to Manike Farm IDP camp after a mini cyclone
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society has taken immediate steps to provide much needed aid to the victims of the mini cyclone that swept across the Menik Farm Internally Displaced Camp in Vavuniya.
A community centre for the people of Thalalla
During the 7 year-long tsunami recovery operation I have been at the inauguration of hundreds of buildings funded by the Red Cross and today I was thrilled to have cut the ribbon to a community centre which won a very prestigious architectural award for the Thalalla community centre in Matara, Sri Lanka.
Uplifting communities & strengthening capacity to face disasters
The Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction (IDRR) program intends to build the capacity not only of community but also the stakeholders including government agencies and its officials
A ‘resilient’ community in Sri Lanka
A blog note by Bob McKerrow – Head of Delegation of IFRC in Sri Lanka
It was late 1999 when a cyclone and accompanying storm surge hit the island of Sandwip, a small but highly populated island off the coast off Chittagong, on the southeastern coast in Bangladesh.
A love story transcending hope through the test of time
Seelavathi is a woman born to a Sinhalese family in Rathnapura. Perumal is a man born to a Tamil family and have been living his life in various parts of Jaffna.
Educating farmers in Ampara to safeguard livelihoods from disasters
04/03/2012 – Ampara, Sri Lanka: As a pilot project Sri Lanka Red Cross Society implemented IDRR project with the funding support of German Red Cross. This project differs from other DRR projects because it highly
Residents in Walioya receives much needed assistance from the Red Cross
200 families in the Walioya, Gajabapura&Monarawawa in the Mullativu district received non food relief items from the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society recently.